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News and comment

Ben Reeve Lewis Friday Newsround #44

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[In view of the snow, Ben Reeve Lewis has abandoned his Hawaiian shirt for a pair of slippers...] Snow is on the way to London as I write and I am like a kid at Xmas. I love snow, I love the look of it and even the chaos it brings with it. I got so excited at the…

Deposit Guard – a new service from the RLA and TDS

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The big news at the moment is that there is a new tenancy deposit scheme for landlords which has been launched jointly by the Dispute Service (TDS) and the Residential Landlords Association (RLA). This looks like it will be easy to use and the price cleverly undercuts the My Deposits scheme. As the TDS say,…

The new tenancy deposit rules that will put you at risk

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Landlords need to protect deposits. But they must serve a form giving prescribed information. Have YOU done that for YOUR tenants? If you fail to do this after April you could be in big trouble …

Ben Reeve Lewis Friday Newsround #43

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Ben’s usual roundup of the weeks news and articles on housing on the web. This week we have a joke, and look at tenant fraud, landlord default and IDS on doing the right thing

Ben Reeve Lewis Friday Newsround #42

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Its desperation city here, men queuing for a bed in a shed, silly schemes from Shapps (no change there then), and our leader making up his HB good news. But Ben is on the case …

School for Landlords – increasing rent discussion (7)

School for Landlords

This is the final video in the series on increasing rent. It is a discussion between myself and our own Ben Reeve Lewis (our regular Friday blogger). As usual click on the video to start and then again to stop it. This video is longer than the others at 17.35 minutes. As usual, if you…

Ben Reeve Lewis Friday Newsround #41

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Housing news covered by our regular blogger Ben Reeve Lewis in his usual inimitable style